Texas got its 2027 marching orders Tuesday afternoon, and the Longhorns will spend the opening weekend of conference play in the loudest building on their schedule.
The Southeastern Conference released league schedules for the 2027 season, handing Jim Schlossnagle’s program a 30-game conference slate that begins March 19-21 at LSU’s Alex Box Stadium. Baton Rouge is where SEC newcomers learn what the league actually feels like, and Texas will get that education before it plays a single conference game in Austin.
The home portion starts a week later, when South Carolina visits UFCU Disch-Falk Field on March 25-27. From there the Longhorns settle into the alternating rhythm the SEC has used since expanding: Texas hits the road to Alabama on April 2-4, welcomes Tennessee on April 9-11, travels to Florida on April 16-18, then hosts Arkansas on April 23-25.
The back half is where the schedule tightens. Vanderbilt comes to Austin on April 30-May 2 in a series that straddles the calendar flip, followed by a trip to Oklahoma on May 7-9. Texas A&M arrives on May 14-16 for the Cotton Holdings Lonestar Showdown, the last home weekend of the regular season and, judging by the previous editions, the one that will fill the Disch first. The Longhorns close on the road at Georgia on May 20-22 before the league tournament.
That works out to five home series and five on the road, with the two most emotionally loaded weekends bookending the finish: A&M in Austin, then a plane ride to Athens with seeding on the line.
The SEC Tournament stays at Hoover Met Stadium and runs May 25-30. All 16 programs will be in the field, playing a single-elimination bracket, which means a week’s worth of season-defining swings with no cushion for a bad afternoon.
Texas has adjusted to this league faster than anyone expected, including people inside the league. Since joining ahead of the 2025 season, the Longhorns have gone 41-18 in SEC play, a .695 winning percentage that is the best mark in the conference over those two years. That is not a survival number. That is a number that puts a program in the middle of the championship conversation every spring.
The 2026 season backed it up. Texas was one of 12 SEC teams to earn an NCAA Tournament bid, part of a haul no conference has matched, and the Longhorns pushed all the way to the Men’s College World Series for the 39th time in program history. No one else has been to Omaha that often.
There is the usual asterisk attached to any schedule released in September. Television will have its say, and the conference noted that dates remain subject to change, including the possibility of some series shifting to Thursday starts. That has become standard practice across the SEC as networks spread inventory across the week, so a few of these weekends may look slightly different by the time February arrives.
For now, though, the shape of the season is clear. Texas will find out early what it is, opening in Baton Rouge, and it will finish with a stretch that offers no soft landing: Vanderbilt, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Georgia. Four weekends, four programs with tournament ambitions of their own.
Complete SEC Schedule
| Dates | Opponent | Site |
|---|---|---|
| March 19-21 | at LSU | Alex Box Stadium, Baton Rouge, La. |
| March 25-27 | South Carolina | UFCU Disch-Falk Field, Austin |
| April 2-4 | at Alabama | Sewell-Thomas Stadium, Tuscaloosa, Ala. |
| April 9-11 | Tennessee | UFCU Disch-Falk Field, Austin |
| April 16-18 | at Florida | Condron Family Ballpark, Gainesville, Fla. |
| April 23-25 | Arkansas | UFCU Disch-Falk Field, Austin |
| April 30-May 2 | Vanderbilt | UFCU Disch-Falk Field, Austin |
| May 7-9 | at Oklahoma | L. Dale Mitchell Park, Norman, Okla. |
| May 14-16 | Texas A&M (Cotton Holdings Lonestar Showdown) | UFCU Disch-Falk Field, Austin |
| May 20-22 | at Georgia | Foley Field, Athens, Ga. |
| May 25-30 | SEC Tournament | Hoover Met Stadium, Hoover, Ala. |
